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Mr. Lyman, of Manchester, adjoining Hartford, in the 

 same State, has cidtivated the Moras multicauUs for four 

 years, and has never protected them at all. On him, also, I 

 called, during the present summer, where I saw the Morus 

 multicaulis in a flourishing state, — plants of four or five years 

 of age, uninjured in a naked and unprotected soil. He had, 

 indeed, during last winter, lost many young trees of tliis nuil- 

 berry, forced trccs^ of but a sins;le summer''s growth^ in a bare and 

 unprotected soil; these were all he had ever lost. This same 

 winter which had destroyed these, and yet spared all the 

 Morns multicaulis of an older growth, and of former years, 

 destroyed also to the root, a whole nursery of cherry trees, 

 three years old, which stood beside them. 



Mr. Davenport, of Colerain, Mass., is an experienced 

 cultivator of this tree : to him I have just written, but my 

 letter has not yet found him. He is now in Connecticut, and 

 has just stated to Mr. Bestor, that his Morus multicaulis, 

 unprotected, had endured the late severe winter uninjured, 

 all being planted in a suitable soil. Both alike conuuend 

 soils of but moderate fertility, — a dry soil, on a friable 

 subsoil, on moderate elevations and gentle declivities; these 

 being the soils and situations which all authors agree are 

 most suitable for the mulberry from China. 



At Hartford, and at the Messrs. Comstocks, the trees are 

 now growing which they purchased of Mr. Bestor; these, 

 had borne the last winter well, though unprotected. These 

 gentlemen are the editors of the " Silk Culturist <^' Farmer^s 

 Manual,^^ and are the sources of intelligence; and their faith 

 in this tree is firm and unwavering. See their excellent 

 monthly periodical. William Kenrick. 



Mnantum Hill, Jfeivton, Aug. 20, 1835. 



We are highly gratified in presenting our readers with a communica- 

 tion from our esteemed friend, Mr. Kenrick ; and we are still more grat- 

 ified, that it is upon a subject which, at the present moment, is engrossing 

 public attention, — one not only of great importance to the horticulturist, 

 as well as the agriculturist, — one not only of vital interest to every indi- 

 vidual, but one touching the ])rosperity, the resources, and the future 

 happiness of our country. When we view the rapid progress which the 

 cultivation of the nmlberry, the rearing of the silk-worm, and the man- 

 ufacture of various silk goods, has made within a few years — or we 

 might say within a few months — it nmst be apparent to every observer, 

 and more particularly to all who have read and informed themselves 

 upon the subject, that it will one day, be one of the greatest sources of 

 income to the agricultural portion of our country. That it has not pro- 

 gressed more rapidly, is a matter of astonishment to us; yet, when we 

 consider that it is only by diffusing correct and valuable information, 

 that public attention can be awakened to a subject of great importance, 

 and when we reflect that, in regard to raising of the mulberry and the 

 rearing of silk-worms, so little has been written, until lately, it may not 



